PubMed Central, : RMMJ Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal Rambam Health Care Campus 2023 July; 14(3): e0014. ISSN: 2076-9172Published online 2023 July 31. doi: 10.5041/RMMJ.10501.

Table 2.

Clinical Outcomes of Neutropenic Patients. Outcome, n (%)

Outcome, n (%)	Temperature Measurement		P Value
Outcome, n (%)	Oral (n=407)	Rectal (n=40)	P Value
Positive blood cultures^*	43 (10.6)	2 (5.1)	0.276

Contaminated	9 (20.9)	0 (0)	0.463
Pathological^†	34 (8.1)	2 (5)	0.485
Gram-positive blood cultures	6 (14)	1 (50)	0.177

Gram-negative blood cultures	28 (65)	1 (50)	0.895

Pseudomonas blood cultures	7 (16.3)	0 (0)	0.424

Vasopressors during hospitalization^‡	2 (0.5)	1/32 (3.1)	0.102

Hospitalization in oncology ward	161 (39.6)	4 (10)	<0.001

Hospitalization in internal medicine department	151 (37.1)	22 (55)	0.027

Mortality during hospitalization	67 (16.5)	2 (5)	0.056

^*Culture results were missing in 2 patients (oral group, 1; rectal group, 1).

^†Of 34 pathological cultures in the oral group, 1 culture result was missing, and 1 culture result was counted twice since the cultures grew Gram-positive (n=1) and Gram-negative (n=2) bacteria.

^‡Data were missing in 8 of 40 patients included in the rectal group.

RMMJ Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal Rambam Health Care Campus 2023 July; 14(3): e0014. ISSN: 2076-9172

Published online 2023 July 31. doi: 10.5041/RMMJ.10501.